Madison Food
Anasazi ate corn squash and beans that they grew. they hunted mice dear rabbits and big horned sheep. The
Anasazi also picked wild berries.
ClothingThe early Anasazi clothed themselves in fur or turkey-feather robes, string aprons, loincloths and roundtoed, plant-fiber sandals. They wore ornaments made out of shells, bone, or stone.
Anasazi men wore no clothing in hot weather, but did wear a belt of woven hair and grasses from which they hung their tools and other necessities. The women wore a type of breech cloth with a waistband woven of hair. From this waistband hung a long and narrow "apron" which was made of a wide border of highly decorated fingerweaving which ended in hundreds of strands of loose yucca fiber.
In cold weather, "wrap-arounds" or "robes" were used by everyone, and were made of buckskin or turkey feathers.
Everyone also wore sandals woven of yucca and hemp.
The Anasazi loved jewelry and feathers of all types and they often incorporated them into the decoration of their clothing
Transportation
They walked
Shelter They lived in cliff dwellings, and pit houses.They are made from rock or stone.They sometimes made their own and sometimes traded land for other, better land and they made their houses in cliffs and they made the houses out of rock. They had a lot of rooms in some of the homes
Geography
Recreation
The Anasazi were believed to have played games with a variety of small disk-like game pieces. They supposedly played a game with a stick and a hoop were the tried to chuck it as far as they could.
Religion
After analyzing the religious symbols found on rocks or pottery and the distribution of ceremonial structures, some archeologists now think that the Anasazi may have been influenced into leaving their homeland by the pull of a new religion. One possibility is the Kachina religion with its masks and dolls that still survive today. Unlike many of the secret organizations in the modern pueblos, the Kachina societies, in which spirits of dead ancestors acted as intermediaries to the gods, were open to everyone, so some archeologists think that this spirit of equality would have had an appeal to a civilization like the Anasazi's that was entering a dark age. Anthropologists studying 20th-century pueblos have found a mix of secret societies co-existing with the more recent Kachina religion. There are hunt societies, medicine societies and societies of sacred clowns. In addition, pueblos are often divided into two factions, called the summer and winter or the squash and turquoise people. Anthropologists are fairly sure that these new organizations were not imported by the Anasazi, but sprang up sometime after their arrival.
Food
Anasazi ate corn squash and beans that they grew. they hunted mice dear rabbits and big horned sheep. The
Anasazi also picked wild berries.
ClothingThe early Anasazi clothed themselves in fur or turkey-feather robes, string aprons, loincloths and roundtoed, plant-fiber sandals. They wore ornaments made out of shells, bone, or stone.
Anasazi men wore no clothing in hot weather, but did wear a belt of woven hair and grasses from which they hung their tools and other necessities. The women wore a type of breech cloth with a waistband woven of hair. From this waistband hung a long and narrow "apron" which was made of a wide border of highly decorated fingerweaving which ended in hundreds of strands of loose yucca fiber.
In cold weather, "wrap-arounds" or "robes" were used by everyone, and were made of buckskin or turkey feathers.
Everyone also wore sandals woven of yucca and hemp.
The Anasazi loved jewelry and feathers of all types and they often incorporated them into the decoration of their clothing
Transportation
They walked
Shelter
They lived in cliff dwellings, and pit houses.They are made from rock or stone.They sometimes made their own and sometimes traded land for other, better land and they made their houses in cliffs and they made the houses out of rock. They had a lot of rooms in some of the homes
Geography
Recreation
The Anasazi were believed to have played games with a variety of small disk-like game pieces. They supposedly played a game with a stick and a hoop were the tried to chuck it as far as they could.
Religion
After analyzing the religious symbols found on rocks or pottery and the distribution of ceremonial structures, some archeologists now think that the Anasazi may have been influenced into leaving their homeland by the pull of a new religion. One possibility is the Kachina religion with its masks and dolls that still survive today. Unlike many of the secret organizations in the modern pueblos, the Kachina societies, in which spirits of dead ancestors acted as intermediaries to the gods, were open to everyone, so some archeologists think that this spirit of equality would have had an appeal to a civilization like the Anasazi's that was entering a dark age. Anthropologists studying 20th-century pueblos have found a mix of secret societies co-existing with the more recent Kachina religion. There are hunt societies, medicine societies and societies of sacred clowns. In addition, pueblos are often divided into two factions, called the summer and winter or the squash and turquoise people. Anthropologists are fairly sure that these new organizations were not imported by the Anasazi, but sprang up sometime after their arrival.